Batavia, Apr, 8, As the result of a telegram from Holland stating that Ceylon and British India could not possibly maintain their present promise to restrict their output of tea unless. estates in the Dutch East Indies guaranteed a restriction of ten per cent., the Association of Owners Dutch East Indian ten estates is again doing its utmost to induce ite whembers to increase their rest vice tion to 10,000,000 1b. instead of the 7,600,000 Ib. they have at. present undertaken, Meetings in this connection have been called at Ban-doong on Thursday and at Batavia on Friday, Apr. 9 The Association of Ten Owners has issued a circular to its mem= ders on the subject of the restrice tion of production, It states that, although there is every hope that the negotiations will rd successfully, the whole scheme stands or falls with the yestvietion the Java production to 10,00,000
The meetings of tea-planters at Bandoeng and Batavin have agreed to restrict this season's tea produetion in the Dutch Eust Indies by 8.500,000 Ib., compared with the 10,000,000 Ib. stipulated for by the tea-planters of Ceylon and British India az necessary if the latter wet to carry out their promise to restrict their output,—Reuter.
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